Crime

TWO YOUNG MEN who carried out violent robberies, throwing ammonia in the faces of their female victims, have been convicted after appearing at Wood Green Crown Court. The trial began on 2nd October and ended on Tuesday this week. Sadik ...

WHAT IS happening to Tower Hamlets? to East London? How does it happen that in one night a young woman can be subjected to three apparently unconnected sexual assaults on the streets of Tower Hamlets in the space of an ...

SABIRE SHARIFE’s attack on a woman in Hackney was no spontaneous act. It was around 3.30am on 9th April when he saw her in Well Street, Hackney. He followed her. She got onto a bus. He followed her, sitting near ...

THIS WEEK Papis Cante, 36, of St John’s Court, Queen’s Drive, Hackney was brought to Wood Green Crown Court – and pleaded guilty to two counts of rape, relating to events which occurred over the summer. The first rape occurred ...

A GANG OF FOUR petty but persistent criminals were sent to prison last week – clocking up long sentences for the large number of robberies they had carried out in convenience stores and petrol stations in and around Tower Hamlets. ...

TWO YOUNG MEN from Newham have been locked up for over eleven years between them following their conviction for multiple drug offences. The pair – Phil Kamulete, 22, of Henniker Point and Romaro Watson, 22, of Disraeli Road – were ...

MAN WAS LEFT critically injured after a collision on Green Lane, at the junction with Castle Lane and Greenway, on 6th September. The incident occurred just before 11.30am. The London Ambulance Service was the first emergency team to respond, and ...

MEN have now been charged with the murder of Liam Alan Harman, 28, in Straight Road, Romford on 11th July. Harman died as a result of stab wounds to the chest and abdomen. Nathan Charles, 22, of no fixed abode, ...

POLICE HAVE named the young man who died last weekend in Bow as Lamar Stewart, who lived in Mitcham and was attending a party in Ropery Street. A post mortem has confirmed that the cause of death was haemorrhage and ...

A TEACHER who lived in East London has been jailed for 16 months after pleading guilty to seven counts of adult abuse of a position of trust. Alice McBrearty, 23, of Wanstead Park Avenue, E12, was sentenced at Snaresbrook Crown ...